And the Internet Archive too

Which is useless for non-local stuff

And this is the kind of things we wanted with the Stop Killing Games initiative, high respect for this dev

Missing: instant preview. If the implementation is just syncing a file, then that works, otherwise it’s the same thing

Ah, i misunderstood, yeah, there’s got to be some rigging in that demo pic now that you mention it, however if Moissanite is essentially a drop-in replacement for diamonds in jewelry that is cheaper and looks even slightly nicer, which seems to be the case, then all should be well, doubly so if it kills the profits of De Beers. I’d ask to see the contrast IN PERSON if i was shopping for rings today though, nothing beats that.

Moissanite is a completely different substance than diamond, it’s a silicon carbide crystal, and it’s also made synthetically so no worries about exploitation mining, it’s also cheaper

And once again this XKCD applies

For a few years I’ve saved this pic from previous similar posts in various places, no need even for freaking diamonds

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Had typed a long response and it went away, let’s try again… 😅

So, been lately in a Castlevania binge (Metroidvanias only, I’ve always sucked at the platforming ones) and there’s a nice group of games there, you beat Aria, now try Dawn which happens a year later, a very rare direct sequel among these. Then there’s Harmony of Dissonance, Circle of the Moon if you’re into that one (I’m lukewarm on this one), Dawn as mentioned, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclessia, and of course the grandaddy of them all, Symphony of the Night. All these are FREAKING FULL of achievements on Retroachievements, unlike the officially released versions on Steam with the Advance and Dominus collections, which only have a tiny handful for each game. Retroachievements has like 5 to 10 times the achievements for games, every achievement on the official releases is in Retroachievements, along with A LOT of ones not covered. Even tiny little missable details like this one on Symphony which I’ve always loved. It also has achievements for the nutcases like speedrunning ones or the “Defeat X with no damage and without using so and so item”.

Just make sure the emulator and retroachievements recognize it, i’ll have to redo Portrait at some point because it never recognized it as Portrait for some reason (ROM issues or something?)

And of course, once you’re done with these, there’s Bloodstained, the Castlevaina not Castlevania, quite fun and with the right vibe!

And now the upcoming administration wants to privatize even MORE shit

Since you mentioned it days ago I’ve been thinking it, would i be OK with those if the sound was normalized? Been actually checking it, normalizing audio on clips and seeing if i am now OK with those. And the answer continues to be a no. Why? Because IT’S AN AD. It’s an ad for the enshittified, cancerous social media platform it came from. Put creator watermarks in the video itself like so many already do, then chop off those COMPLETELY unnecessary ads for tikitocs or Zuckergram, and we’ll be better off and missing nothing.

Bluesky is by definition one of the things mentioned by the OP, they’re a commercial site, backed by venture capital, which recently received a round of financing on the order of 15 million by a freaking blockchain company, and i remember recently hearing they just plain don’t have a path to profit so it’s the same story as all the others. They ARE going to enshittify sooner or later. Here’s Cory Doctorow on this.

I can think of one: it’s FUCKING annoying, I’d be quite fine with the creator watermark in the video itself (and many do so), but that extra tacked-on logo clip, usually at 2-3 times the volume of the clip itself, is EXTREMELY annoying, i understand what you say but this is also a legitimate reason

Google was the freaking best years ago, i saw it and they WERE great, the corporation of today might not be evil but we have zero assurances about the future, and i DON’T wanna give that power over my online life to any corpo again.

Still, noted.

Oh no! My backlog! 😱

While it looks good, maybe it’s my ignorance but it feels like you’re replacing Google with somebody else that will have the same power over you, am i mistaken? I am very much against the “all your eggs in one basket” approach after Google so not sure if replacing it with these people won’t be a repeat of the same thing

Doesn’t that require an external account and running the fucking Origin client on device? I’ve seen that go to ludicrous levels of discounts (currently at freaking 92% discount) but FUCK THAT!

Same, been going through my backlog and only rarely adding to it, although the Humble Choice subscription which i still can make myself leave keeps growing it slowly 😅

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